Everton having their 10-point deduction reduced to six for a breach of Profit and Sustainability rules is not a vindication of how the club managed their finances, Daily Mail journalist Ian Ladyman has said.
This week, the Toffees’ appeal against the punishment they received for breaking the Premier League’s PSR rules was partially upheld, giving them a boost to their survival chances. However, more points may be deducted while they wait to hear the verdict of a second PSR charge.
Even though Ladyman supports the decision to give Sean Dyche’s team some points back, she believes the Merseyside club still ought to have received a severe punishment.
He wrote: “A ten-point penalty for Everton’s breach of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules was too high” in an article that appeared on page 77 of the Daily Mail’s print edition on March 1.
“It was only fair to lower it on Monday. However, it would be incorrect to portray this as support for the Merseyside club’s method of funding it. Everton messed it up by playing it fast and loose at the margins. That portion is unaltered.
Everton heavy spending comes back to haunt them
For everyone connected to the club, the past several years have been frustrating for Everton due to a lack of direction.
With the new stadium coming soon, this should be an exciting moment to be a Toffees fan. Threats of a point deduction and off-field problems, meanwhile, continue to hang over the team.
Over the past ten or so years, they have not been very good at recruiting, and they have overpaid for a number of players—Moise Kean, Davy Klaassen, Yannick Bolasie, to mention a few—who didn’t live up to their price.
They ought to have attempted to imitate the sustainable approach that other teams—most notably Brighton and Hove Albion—had demonstrated by making significant progress in recent campaigns.
Everton has an experienced manager in Dyche and enough quality in their ranks to keep themselves out of danger. After all, they would be comfortably in the middle of the table if it weren’t for their points reduction.
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